The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-31

tied to their COLLARS and the dogs are dispatched
back to q given point. When any OF the parri-
maneuvering at night tho dogs accom-
pauy the advanced sentinels OF the bivouac and
are taught to watch for and bark violently at
the faintest sign OF any one approaching the
camp.
THESE words used by Pere Hyacinthe recent
ly in speaking of the negotiations between the
papacy and several Protestant powers were
warmly applauded by his French audience: II
DO not understand whv !. true son of the
Latin church.. should be under a ban while Pope
Leo AlII should present the order of Christ TO
frince bismarck. who, in the eyes OF the church,
is hereto"
PIERRE VERoN, in his last volume Of De Vous
Moi, speaks of beggars' agency in Paris
which supplies, for two francs, the addresses OF
ners ous who are known to assist beggars It
also supplies professors of mendcity. who sell
to soften the hard-hearsed. Veron does not
state whether those establishments have as yet
been licensed by the authorities.
DURING the hearing of q suit in London re-
lating to patent 'dress improver"-commonly
called buste-the judge, Justice Kekewich,
asked see the style called the Jubilee and
as the counsel were ignorant of this design, the
Judge explained that it arranged that
when lady sat down on it, il played God Save
the Queen" Later in the same one of the
counsel seriously argued that dress improver
was nothing more than a garter. though larger
in size.
THE name s'roorback" applied to a campaign4
yarn is derived from Baron Roorpach's Trav~
els and Observations" which were the "tattooed-
man" sensation Of the Polk Clay campaign.
They contained story which proved nearly
fatal to Polk-that negroes might be seen in the
Southern States with the initials -. Z. P"
burned into the, their flesh; The travels zero not
stated, but by man named Linn who lived
and died at Ithaca. N. Y.
AN instance of tho meagre salaries paid to
important officials is found in the vacant secre-
taryship of the Smithsonian Institution 1t Isl
conceded that Professor S. P. Langley, the
present assistant secretary. is the proper man
to succeed Professor Baird. If he should do so,i
he would be compelled to give his entire time
to an office which pays 5000 year. whereas
now In addition to his salary as assistant Sec
retay he receives $4,000 from the Allegheny
observatory. Professor Langley may decline a.
promotion which will cost him much.
THE presiding ladies of the White House still I
living are Harriet Lane Johnston, who, bereftl
of her husband and son, dwells in dignified and
comfortable retirement in Baltimore; Mrs.
Grant. who lives in comparative opulence in
New York on the proceeds of her hero husbands
handiwork in the jaws of death: Mrs. HAYES,
who in the joy OF her husband and family. pre-
sides over her household at Fremont. O.; Mrs. .
Garfield who lives at Mentor in the comfort as
sured her by the fund raised by admirine and
sympathetic friends. and Mary Arthur McElroy,
how lives in her own home at Albany.
NEW WORKERS fill the Catskills, which used
to be a chain of mountains. but now are chain
of boarding houses in such intense competition
that board be got there low as four
dollars week. and one will see families taking
boarders before they have quarters for them,
literally building boarding houses out of board
ers; that is to say renting rooms before their
houses are painted or have their front steps and
verandas built At the present rate of progressa
they will be giving chromos or souvenirs with
each weeks board before 1890 This is whera
the men with large families and small incomes
go. and the roads alive with girls with
bangles and blue flannel sailor suits. and young
men with cigarettes and laced tennis shirts and
coats.
THE real, original and simon-pure claimant,
Sir Roger Tichoorne bart. has an engagement
bartender in an obscure hotel on Chatham
square. Sir Roger has just returned from Eng
land, and being gentleman of versatile powers
and many accomplishments, finding other
avenue open at present, will devote himself to
the great profession of mixing drinks and draw
ing beer for the thirsty thousands who daily and
nightly have recourse to this gittering dive. Sir
Roger at present weighs 800 pounds. and moves
a. bout with a benign smile and a seven-b nine
tread Said he in deep bass voice tonight:
ANY person who doubts that Sir Roger,
and who wishes to have those doubts removed,
let nm come / have here sufficient doc4
uments to prove my identity in every particu<
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